1933 in Ireland


Events from the year 1933 in Ireland.

Incumbents

  • Governor-General: Domhnall Ua Buachalla
  • President of the Executive Council: Éamon de Valera
  • Vice-President of the Executive Council: Seán T. O'Kelly
  • Minister for Finance: Seán MacEntee
  • Chief Justice: Hugh Kennedy
  • Dáil:
  • * 7th
  • * 8th
  • Seanad: 1931 Seanad

    Events

  • 4 February – Fianna Fáil, led by Éamon de Valera, win their first overall majority in Dáil Éireann. He is welcomed in his own constituency in County Clare where 77 horsemen and 77 torchbearers who light 77 tar barrels in honour of the 77 seats won by the party.
  • 21 February – representatives from the Netherlands and Germany arrive in Galway to inspect the site of a proposed new £3 million airport.
  • 22 February – General Eoin O'Duffy is removed from his post as Commissioner of the Garda Síochána.
  • 27 February – four people die in the great snowstorm that is gripping the country.
  • 2 March – a vote to remove the Oath of Allegiance to the British Crown is carried by 71 to 38.
  • 17 March – Éamon de Valera gives a State reception in St. Patrick's Hall of Dublin Castle, the first since the foundation of the state.
  • 27–30 March – 1933 Dublin riot: four nights of anti-communist rioting occur in Dublin City.
  • 17 April – Ireland's first parachute jump, executed by Joseph Gilmore, is successful.
  • 3 May – in Dáil Éireann the Bill to abolish the Oath of Allegiance is passed.
  • August – the Irish Air Corps' host their first Air Pageant over Phoenix Park, Dublin, including mock aerial combat performed by planes.
  • 10 August – General Eoin O'Duffy outlines his proposals for remodelling parliament. He favours a system of representatives from vocational and professional groups.
  • 15 August – the Cistercians' Mount Melleray Abbey in County Waterford celebrates its centenary.
  • 23 August – the Sugar Manufacture Act provides for nationalisation of the sugar beet processing industry to ensure self-sufficiency.
  • 2 September – the United Ireland Organisation is formed as Cumann na nGaedheal, the National Centre Party and the Blueshirts agree to merge under the leadership of Eoin O'Duffy. W. T. Cosgrave will lead the party in Dáil Éireann.
  • 14 September – the United Ireland movement, which has adopted the title 'Fine Gael', will contest the general election in October as a political party.
  • 8 December – the Blueshirts are banned by the Fianna Fáil government.
  • Scottish Democratic Fascist Party founded by William Weir Gilmour and Major Hume Sleigh to oppose Irish Catholic migration to Scotland.

    Arts and literature

  • 6 February – premiere of Lennox Robinson's comedy Drama at Inish at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.
  • 28 March – premiere of Christine Longford's comedy Mr. Jiggins of Jigginstown at the Gate Theatre, Dublin.
  • 1 May – Muiris Ó Súilleabháin publishes his memoir Fiche Bliain ag Fás / Twenty Years A'Growing.
  • Winifred Mary Letts publishes her memoir Knockmaroon.
  • W. B. Yeats publishes his Collected Poems and The Winding Stair and Other Poems.

    Sport

Association football